Two San Antonio high-school students and their parents are being sued by Clark High School assisant principal Anna Draker, after the teenagers posted a fake MySpace profile in Draker’s name.
The profile, written as though it was by Draker, falsely identified the assistant principal as a lesbian.
Draker is claiming defamation, libel, negligence, and negligent supervision, and is suing for emotional distress, mental anguish, lost wages and court costs.
MySpace.com removed the page as soon as it was contacted by Draker in April.
Is Draker over reacting? After all, haven’t kids been playing pranks on teachers since the first school was invented?
When I was a teenager (1984 to 1990), we did lots of stupid things, played all sorts of pranks, and said all sorts of things about other kids and our teachers. The only thing is that we didn’t have access to a global platform like MySpace to publish those defamatory remarks to the world.
I have to say that given the very real possibility of defamation, Draker is justified in her action. Having said that, if Draker just got the page removed and reprimanded the students involved, surely there would have been less disruption of her life than there is now with a pending court case.
Students and parents be warned!
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Responses to “Teacher sues students over fake MySpace profile”
December 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
I saw this lady on Dr. Phil and at first I felt sorry for her, but after hearing what happened and the true severity of it all, I really thing the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. It should have been dealt with in school and she only made it worse by making it public. She seems very odd to me, as someone that never matured nor can deal with their emotions. I don’t know how she feels unsafe going to school, or walking to her car? Its not like she was mugged and raped. Pranks are pranks and even though the kids did something wrong, they shouldn’t pay for it the rest of their lives for something so trivial.
December 27th, 2006 at 3:32 am
This lady has to be the most retarded lady in the world… If she is willing to ruin peoples life over something so small and the family’s life also then she is going to have a rude awakening. Even if the court was to charge the parents there is nothing saying they have ot pay it. All they have to do is claim bankruptcy and it will knock the payment into a seven year wait period. By that time the IRS wil have hit her with some tax that she will have to give proof that she hasnt recieved any cash and will have to do it every year there forward until she gets paid. Then all the parents have to do is hide massive amounts of the money and she will never see a dime. But the criminal charges are just retarded and people like her get waht is coming to her. She will probably ruin someones life but in the long run her life will be worst off because she will be lucky to even get money even after the lawyers are paid. I hope she drives down the freeway and a semi plows into her before the case starts. These poor boys dopnt deserve this just calling her a lesbian and if she is getting that mad she is probably a lesbian anyways…. A very ugly one i might add. there is also a chance that the judge and jury go light on the kids based simply on the circumstances. People like her shouldn’t be part of society.. they are the ones who destroy people’s lives and think they are helping the world. When in fact they are destroying it one person at a time forgive and forget is what i say. Life is too short for BS like this.
January 11th, 2007 at 2:17 am
mrs. draker was a cold hearted bitch. plain and simple. if she wouldn’t have been such a fucking drag all the time, then someone wouldn’t have made a page about her. you didn’t have to sit through her office and feel the power trip that exerted out of her ass.
i don’t feel bad for her at all, shes just making more of an ass of herself.
January 20th, 2007 at 1:27 am
I can not believe you idiots! This womens reputation was trampeled, and in the the world of education your rep is everything. Charlie, Grant, amd Mike I ask you this: What if this was your wife, your daughter, your sister, or your mom would you feel any different? Catalina, I don’t ask you a thing. You are obviously young and not quite mature yet as you can tell by the language and total lack off thought in your response. These boys do need to be punished and I hope they and thier parents learn a lesson from all this. You people need to read up instead of getting your opinions from an edited talk show. Only time will tell what will happen, but I hope this changes the way people, let thier children run wild on the web. One last thing, Catalina go see the counseler at school. Sweetie you need alot of help!
March 8th, 2007 at 5:25 am
I personaly have had Mrs. Draker as a teacher about ten years ago. This really does not suprise me that she is going this far to take all she can from these students. When I had her she was always on a power trip and she was always known as a bitch. I cannot recall a single student from my school that remotely liked this woman, I even know of teachers that hatted her. So, I think this woman got what she deserved.
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:32 am
gary, catalina HAD MRS DRAKER. shes not some foolish bystander with opinions formed by a “talk show”.. what kind of kid listens to ANYTHING dr. phil says anyway? for an adult (and i assume your in the school system somewhere) your opinions are fucked.
i can assure you shes right on mrs draker, having had her for 3 years. if your anything like her and i doubt you are (not one other person in the public school system is have met is) then you deserve all the bashing as much as she does. she HAS ruined kids lives over the years of her administration. tom is right in that the teachers, to this day, regard the name with a rolling of eyes. you say her “reputation was trampled”… she was the one who trampled her own reputation, a long time before this situation. thank you, moron.
July 20th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Nick, of course if Catalina had Draker than she’s going to hate her! I’m 15 and one of my favorite teachers is hated by nearly everyone in the school! It’s because she actually assigns homework and will send out the retards who disrupt the class. Everyone calls her a bitch, too. But she’s really not and she’s one of the best teachers I’ve ever had.
Now, as for Draker, well I don’t know her so I can’t have much of an opinion. I do think that the prank they pulled was cruel and probably ruined her career in that area. Some kids who don’t like a teacher aren’t going to do something like that - those kids must’ve been really stupid and blame the teacher for what they refuse to do.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I dont think she needed to take it to the courts. All she needed to to was find them in a back alley and bash there fuckin faces in. That would have been enough satisfaction for me. ha.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:45 am
If anyone has any stories about about myspace hackers like the one where (the two kids creating a profile for the teacher without her knowing) please send them to dwight131@live.com, so I can try and do something about it before it gets to far out of hand. Thanks for your time.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
This is not a frivolous matter to teachers who have had their professional licenses threatened by malicious students. How would YOU feel if your income, and as a result your mortgage, children’s well-being, and economic security are threatened because of a “prank” or a student who simply wants to “get back” at an educator.
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December 7th, 2006 at 12:16 am
I saw her on Dr. Phil and this woman is out for blood. She acts like a victim to something that is a minor upset in her life. This thing could of been put behind her once the profile was taken down but instead she wants to destory kids life and their familes life just out of revenge. She wants to take money from their familes and and the kids that made the page will become felons. What became a stupid prank will now cost these kids their future and mabe even a family homeless. But, who knows maybe all this will make up for those few tears in the teacher’s lounge.